# Installer vimpager avec Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, pacman

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de vimpager pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:vimpager
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install vimpager
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install vimpager
```

  Preuve: MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/vimpager/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#vimpager
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: vimpager from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S vimpager
```

  Preuve: Arch Linux sync databases: vimpager from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:vimpager
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Page du gestionnaire de paquets:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/vimpager>
- **Version:** 2.06
- **Résumé source:** Use ViM as PAGER
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/rkitover/vimpager>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/rkitover/vimpager>
- **Docs amont:** <https://github.com/rkitover/vimpager#readme>
- **Licence:** BSD-2-Clause
- **Archive source:** <https://github.com/rkitover/vimpager/archive/refs/tags/2.06.tar.gz>
- **Généré:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00

## exécutables

- vimcat (cli)
- vimpager (cli)
- vimcat (alias)
- vimpager (alias)

## Dépendances de compilation

- pandoc

## Comportement d'installation

- hook post-installation: non défini
- Précautions: To use vimpager as your default pager, add `export PAGER=vimpager` to your shell configuration.
- Bouteille: disponible sur arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-07-08
- version du gestionnaire: 2.06
- données locales: OK
- dépôt amont: https://github.com/rkitover/vimpager
- dernière version détectée: 2.06 (à jour)
- info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
## Historique du projet et usages

vimpager is a small Unix-style pager wrapper that uses Vim as the interactive pager. Its README and vim.org script page describe it as a pager using less.vim with support for highlighted man pages and other features on Unix-like systems, Cygwin, and MSYS.

### Historique du projet

The project is maintained by Rafael Kitover and distributed both through its GitHub repository and the historical vim.org scripts catalog as script 1723. The vimpager script identifies itself as a shell script for using Vim as PAGER and notes that it is based on Bram Moolenaar's less.sh.

### Historique d'adoption

vimpager belongs to the long-running pattern of making terminal tools use a preferred editor's navigation model. Its vim.org script listing shows substantial historical script-catalog usage, and its packaging in systems such as Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, and pacman reflects its role as a niche but recognizable tool for Vim-oriented shell users.

### Modes d'utilisation

Users set PAGER or aliases such as less to vimpager so command output, manual pages, and logs open inside a read-only Vim-driven pager. vimpager also ships vimcat, which uses Vim as a syntax-highlighting backend for cat-like output while falling back safely when output is not a terminal.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

For package nerds, vimpager is a classic composability package: it turns the shell's generic PAGER convention into a Vim interface, preserving syntax highlighting, search, movement, and familiar Vim customization in places normally handled by less.

### Related projects

- vimpager is related to Vim's less.vim, the historical less.sh script, vimcat, and other Vim-as-pager plugins such as vim-pager.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/rkitover/vimpager>
- <https://github.com/rkitover/vimpager/blob/master/markdown/vimcat.md>
- <https://github.com/rkitover/vimpager/blob/master/vimpager>
- <https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1723>


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ~/.vimpagerrc, ~/.vim/vimpagerrc
## Détails de la base source

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** vimpager
- **Aliases:** vimcat
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - vimpager: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: vimpager from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
- pacman - vimpager - 2.06-7: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: vimpager from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | A vim-based script to use as a PAGER. | https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1723
- MacPorts - vimpager: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/vimpager/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Liens liés

- [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family.
- [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata.
- [Productivity CLI packages](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/productivity-cli-packages/) - Matched curated productivity category metadata from av.db.
- [pandoc](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/pandoc/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [eless](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/eless/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, pager, productivity, terminal.
- [nvimpager](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/nvimpager/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, pager, productivity, terminal.
- [page](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/page/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, pager, productivity, terminal.
- [byobu](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/byobu/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, productivity, terminal.
- [cbonsai](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/cbonsai/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, productivity, terminal.
- [sc-im](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/sc-im/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, productivity, terminal.
- [sheets](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/sheets/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, productivity, terminal.
- [smug](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/smug/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, productivity, terminal.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/vimpager.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/vimpager.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph